Arnold Schwarzenegger helps pump Joseph Baena up as he follows in dad&x27;s bodybuilding footsteps Ryan ColemanFri, March 27, 2026 at 4:22 AM UTC 0 Arnold Schwarzenegger and Joseph Baena at the 'Fubar' season 2 premiere in Los Angeles in 2025Credit: Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock The barbell doesn't fall far from the rack — or however the saying goes. Arnold Schwarzenegger appears to have become his son's biggest cheerleader, as he follows in his famous dad's footsteps. No, not Patrick Schwarzenegger, whose acting bug bite has led to memorable roles in series like The White Lotus.
Arnold Schwarzenegger helps pump Joseph Baena up as he follows in dad's bodybuilding footsteps
Ryan ColemanFri, March 27, 2026 at 4:22 AM UTC
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Arnold Schwarzenegger and Joseph Baena at the 'Fubar' season 2 premiere in Los Angeles in 2025Credit: Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock
The barbell doesn't fall far from the rack — or however the saying goes.
Arnold Schwarzenegger appears to have become his son's biggest cheerleader, as he follows in his famous dad's footsteps. No, not Patrick Schwarzenegger, whose acting bug bite has led to memorable roles in series like The White Lotus.
A set of photos posted to TikTok on Tuesday by Schwarzenegger's son Joseph Baena shows the Terminator star on the sidelines at Gold's Gym in Venice, Calif., coaching Baena through some heavy-looking lifts.
Joseph Baena in 2022Credit: MICHAEL TRAN/AFP/Getty
Schwarzenegger appears in two of the four photos, both times locked in on Baena, who shows off ripped biceps as he reps a weighted bar. In one shot, Schwarzenegger and another gym-goer appear to shout instructions or encouragement at Baena as he trains his physique.
"You have to shock the muscles!" Baena wrote in the caption of the post, a reference to one of his father's oft-repeated bodybuilding philosophies.
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Baena, 28, is Schwarzenegger's youngest son. His parentage was not a matter of public record until until 2011, when he was 13. News broke then that Schwarzenegger had fathered two children by two different women just five days apart in 1997: Christopher, his youngest child with ex-wife Maria Shriver, and Baena, whose mother is Mildred Patricia "Patty" Baena, a former domestic employee of Schwarzenegger and Shriver.
Both Schwarzenegger and Patty claimed it took several years to discover Baena's true provenance.
"It was as Joseph grew and I started to see the resemblance that I wondered — but it became more apparent as time went on," Patty shared a month after the 2011 revelation.
Schwarzenegger opened up about the fallout from the ordeal in his 2023 Netflix docuseries Arnold: "I think that I have caused enough pain for my family because of my f---up. Everyone had to suffer: Maria had to suffer, the kids had to suffer, Joseph, his mother — everyone."
For his part, Baena has said relatively little about the public scandal, though he did reflect to Men's Health in 2022, "[Patty] was really the only person I had, and I was really the only person that she had... No one knew, and everyone wanted the details. We had each other's backs."
Schwarzenegger now appears a constant presence in Baena's life, inviting him to big events like the 2025 season 2 premiere of his action-packed series Fubar.
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Published: March 27, 2026 at 01:45AM on Source: PRIME TIME
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